The New Steemshelves.com - You Should See This
Tired of wading your way through the Trending, the New, and the Hot trying to find something good to read? Allow me to point you in a better direction: Steemshelves.com.
The new Homepage Large Image
New Site Design
The new site design (upgraded by yours truly) makes it easy-peasy to find something good to read. From the superfluous to the technical, there is something here you'll probably enjoy.
Let's say you want to read some Fiction. Just click on the big Fiction link on the Homepage. You'll be whisked away to a page listing all the fiction authors on Steemshelves. Right now there are thirty authors to choose from, with more added every week.
The top of the Fiction Page Large Image
So here we've clicked on the link for @tinypaleokitchen. We can sort through her works to find fiction, nonfiction and poetry. (Personally I recommend anything by Tiny. She's definitely one of my favorite authors.)
Tiny's Author Page Large Image
Tons of Stuff
There are well over two hundred individual posts on the site. And it's growing every day. It's possible to spend hours reading through great work that you really want to read. Personally, I find it perfectly addictive.
What I am loving the most about it is that I am finding stories and nonfiction articles with multiple chapters. For example, there is a fiction series by @thinknzombie with twelve chapters. If that's not your cup of pea soup, how about thirteen articles in a series by @dbzfan4awhile that teaches the basics of C# programming?
No matter your tastes-of-the-moment, you will find something good to read.
Here are a few more links about Steemshelves:
Introducing Steemshelves by @rhondak
More About Steemshelves by @rhondak
Go Beyond the Wall with Steemshelves.com by @v4vapid
Steemshelves.com, a serialized post hosting site for Steemit by @aggroed
I like this concept. But I'm still wary of putting more fiction on steemit. Once you post fiction here, you lose the ability to publish it to a magazine or journal. If your payout is low after 7 days, and you put a lot of work into it, it feels wasted. So though this website is really great to showcase authors on the platform, there's still the issue of the 7 day window.
I understand the rational for the 7 day timeline system, but for fiction writers it puts us at a disadvantage.
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That can be true for any type of writing published on steemit, not only fiction. And yet, we publish things on steemit. And some of those things are pretty good. Good enough to be placed into an online portfolio which can be referred to as examples of our published writing.
I understand about the 7-day window. To many, it's an unfair system. But again, this is where Steemshelves can actually help. Assume there is a fantastic piece you wrote that just didn't get enough views and therefore, not a lot of upvotes. Is this piece really THAT good? If so, does it make sense to allow it to sink ever further down the blockchain hole? If the piece is so good, maybe it would cause folks to follow you and see your more recent work, if they ever see it.
But they'll never see it, because it has fallen into the never forgotten but hard to navigate black hole of the blockchain. On Steemshelves, it remains easy to find. New people who read it will not be able to upvote it or resteem it. But they will be able to follow you. And that will increase your payouts on your current work.
If I had the concerns about publishing my work that you seem to, I'd be submitting my work exclusively to mainstream outlets. The only things I'd publish on steemit would be the rejects. And I don't say that in a dismissive way. I mean it. Some rejects are not bad at all. There are many reasons it may have been rejected, and not all of those reasons reflect the quality of the writing.
Don't get me wrong. I think this is a cool way for authors to showcase their work. And the example you gave here is apt. I might even put some stuff up there, too.
I have things I work on that will probably never see a steemit page for exactly the reason you cited above: it would make it unpublishable in the mainstream. But I do enjoy writing for the contests and what-not here on steemit.
Great job.
Much appreciated. I have to give credit to @rhondak and @bex-dk for excellent direction and feedback during the upgrade. Working with those two is a pure joy.
This is beyond awesome. I can't thank you enough for the time and effort you put into this. You did a truly professional, first-rate job.
Working with direction from you and @bex-dk made this a relatively easy upgrade. Thanks for all the help and feedback you guys gave on this. It literally couldn't have been done without you.
WOW! this is great @jonknight. Flashy and easy to find stuff. Like what you've done with the site!
Thanks! We tried to make it as easy to get around and find what you're looking for as possible, while at the same time keeping it as simple as we could. Turned out, it was the same thing!
Great info. I had no idea about the steem shelf. Thank you. 🐓🐓
Thanks! I'm glad to have helped!
hey, checked out the site. good job. i notice that it stretches some images though. you probably saw it though.
Nope! Thanks for the catch. I will repair that tonight.
If you see anything else please let me know!
edit: interestingly when I look at that page I don't see stretched images. Can I ask what screen resolution you're using?
1366 x 768. everything else looks fine. it's just that section that stretches.
it also looks fine on my phone. i'm thinking it has something to do with a static height setting, because it reduces the width but not the height when i resize the window
thanks. I'll look at it again with my laptop. Should be resizing both dimensions...
http://www.steemshelves.com/editedbyclay/
Great looking site, Jon! I enjoyed some sneak previews :)
Thanks!
Nice work dude.
Thanks. Having great content and clear direction from the principals helps tremendously.
This is a great announcement. The new design looks fresh!
Thanks! I'm still finding little things to tune but overall I think it's a good redesign. And "fresh" is about the best compliment you could give!